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Legal Services Bill [HL]

That is right: it is to do with ABS. You cannot totally isolate this. By the time you have an obligatory regulatory objective to safeguard the independence and quality of advice, across the board you will get conflicts with the ABS situation, where you have the promotion of competition. I dealt with this briefly before and the noble Baroness said that it was another part of the Bill. I know that, but in a sense it is this part too, because a balance has to be struck. In principle, I merely suggest that this machinery is wholly unsatisfactory.